Doing The Same Miracles, by Utpal
7 JULY
“It is one of my favorite places to run.” As Suprabha says this, the dawn is greeting us with an incredible gentle glow. The 12 runners have already just set off and she has obliged me this morning to do a lap of the course with me. Of course she doesn’t get to New York that often as she lives in the DC area. So one can naturally assume that she doesn’t get to run here that often. At least not now.
But it wasn’t that many years ago in which this was not just her favorite place to run but in many ways the very epicenter of her life’s journey. 13 summers she spent circling this block and when I dare to even comprehend just how many laps and miles she ran here my mind shuts down. Latter using a small calculator, it spat out a gigantic trail of numbers. As I look at her lightly jogging along now, it all just seemed so unbelievable. How was it possible that this petite little woman could have run so many miles here. (40,300)
